Archive for October 28th, 2009

Cat Tinsall is worried her marriage is in tatters. Not only that but her alter-ego “Happy Homemaker” is driving her insane, her children are a bit wild and her mother is becoming forgetful. Noel Tinsall, Cat’s husband, is also concerned about the state of his marriage and is also incredibly worried that he’s going to lose his job.

Over in Hope Christmas, Marianne Moore is reeling from being dumped and is trying to overcome her broken heart. Gabriel North is also harbouring a broken heart after his wife upped and left. Can he and his son Stephen pull through?

Can all four come through the year unscathed? And just who is Ralph Nicholas and what binds him to our four main characters?

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Ilana Fox, author of The Making of Mia, has a new book coming out on 29th April 2010 in Hardcover. The title will be Spotlight and it sounds fantastic. I haven’t read Ilana’s debut so will be on the lookout for both books. Here’s a synopsis:

A fallen star. A runaway bride. They’re about to be pitted against each other by a very powerful man. Madison Miller has everything - beautiful, talented and just a little bit naive; she’s the small-town girl who swept to victory on America’s hottest talent show to become the nation’s sweetheart. She’s also head-over-heels in love with the man who’s masterminded her career - the head-spinningly powerful, lethally attractive Beau Silverman.

But there’s trouble in paradise… Jess has bolted from her approaching wedding and a dead-end job in London to chase dreams of being a fashion designer in New York. But she’s finding life in the Big Apple tough, until she meets a man who makes her an offer she can’t refuse. It means a taste of a life she’s never had - glamorous parties, paparazzi, haute couture - but at what price?

Sweeping from the hotspots of LA to the coolest bars of New York, SPOTLIGHT cuts a gloriously fun swathe through the world of celebrity and glamour, with a page-turning story at its heart.

I know the hardback edition of this book came out in June but somehow I managed to miss it so I thought I’d let you all know about the paperback release of this book instead! The Family Man by Elinor Lipman is released in paperback on 4th February 2010 and sounds fab. I’ve read of one of Elinor Lipman’s hilarious books before and loved it, so I’ll be looking out for this. Here’s the synopsis:

“Henry Archer is a lawyer: successful, gay, lonely. Thalia, his estranged step-daughter, is about to embark on a risky plan to further her Hollywood career. Henry needs love; Thalia needs family. But is moving Thalia and her complicated love-life into the basement of his Manhattan townhouse a recipe for disaster? Or might chaos be the making of them all?”